{"id":4173,"date":"2010-04-05T07:20:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2010-04-05T07:13:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:13:16","slug":"lucky-f1-needs-to-fix-boring-formula-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lucky-f1-needs-to-fix-boring-formula-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lucky&#8217; F1 needs to fix boring formula &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Even though Melbourne and Sepang hosted two exciting races within eight days, Bernie Ecclestone believes F1 still needs to implement changes.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the debut of the sport&#8217;s new refuelling ban era produced a highly-criticised processional race in Bahrain, rain is taking at least some of the credit for the better spectacles witnessed at the next two races in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Before sodden Sepang shook up the grid order for the Malaysian GP, F1 supremo Ecclestone met with team bosses on Friday to discuss the problem of boring races.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be fooled,&#8221; the 79-year-old is quoted as saying by the Telegraph.\u00a0 &#8220;We have been lucky with the rain.\u00a0 We have got to do something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time the teams have realised that they have to do something about it.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t need reverse grids, we just need more overtaking,&#8221; said Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what could be done, he suggested F1 should &#8220;make the front wing smaller and get rid of the double diffuser&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Melbourne and Sepang hosted two exciting races within eight days, Bernie Ecclestone believes F1 still needs to implement changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,5262,5261,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}